The stones of Venice
John Ruskin's study of Venetian building, written 1851-53 and issued in this Boston edition by Estes and Lauriat for English-speaking readers of architecture and art criticism. The wood-engraved figures show paired Gothic windows, pointed and ogee arches, colonnettes and rough stone coursing, plus gridded elevation diagrams of tracery panels, offering arch profiles, hatched masonry textures and measured window patterns for reuse as line ornament.
